What is an ANSI standard?
“Standards” are documents created to set out the standard specifications for consumer products, business contracts, building, programming languages, etc. There are many organisations which compile and promote standards – ANSI is the American National Standards Institute ( http://www.ansi.org/), and all its standards are numbered like “ANSI Z80.18-2003” (that one’s actually the standard for contact lens care products). Another standard type which often appears is ISO – the International Organization for Standardization – and most countries probably have an organisation for standards (Australia’s one is ASO). Standards can be purchased online from each organisation’s web shop.
